I love these tests. Thank you Lifehacker. Wasn’t it freaken obvious that Chrome was faster. Doesn’t take a genius to figure out Apple’s and Microsoft’s in-lab tests are just a load of bull. Browser speed isn’t solely dependent on how fast the page loads the HTML, it’s also dependent on how fast the actual browser works, ie. opening a tab (not pointing to anyone for their F*** slow tabs). I’m really surprised for Opera though, really lost its edge huh.
Anyway, don’t forget Google Chrome is still a crap browser for everything else that you actually use on a browser, *cough* like Bookmarks and Print Previews *cough*, and so you may not want to switch from Firefox to that. Did I mention Google’s developer tools are still stuck on Firefox exclusively? I don’t know… it just looks like Google simply doesn’t care about the developer niche for Chrome. I thought it was clear that pleasing developers was the way to go since they are the one really pushing the browsers by making their sites compatible, I mean, why not, do both, it’s a Google product, native Page Speed would be a nice addition, along with all those features it’s missing.
Well, with Firefox looking towards more extensive standards support in as soon as 3.5, things are getting interesting. Maybe we could get to use cool web technologies if it wasn’t for Microsoft’s 10-years-behind Trident (IE’s engine) developement team. Guess what, we now get to develop stuff for the web that has been available since, wait, 2004, because IE 8 is now out! Oh no, wait wait, there’s still a majority of the world stuck on IE 7, and some 19% on IE 6 (OMG, you can get Firefox on your pirated Windows XP copy ok, you don’t have to crap your WGA that way, so hurry).
At the very least developers can find joy in dedicated server solutions that don’t depend on what your users use. Thank you open source community (Mac OS X Snow Leopard open beta please?) for letting me use PHP 6 without anyone knowing while it’s not even released yet.
